Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 110
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday. March 18. 1959
NEW PLEDGE GREETED — Sally Colladay,
Hutchinson freshman, is being welcomed by two
active sorority members of Delta Delta Delta
sorority. In the middle is Sharon Shaffer, Chillicothe, Mo., junior. On the right is Mary Ann Daugherty, Meade junior.
237 Pledge in Rush Described As 'Successful'
Spring rush for freshman women is officially over and has been declared successful. Emily Taylor, dean of women, said today.
"From a Panhellenic point of view and certainly from the standpoint of the rushees, this rush week has been a complete success," she said
"Most of the girls were placed in the houses of their first choice," Dean Taylor added.
See page 10 for the list or names of those pledging and a story on how the students felt about the rushing system.
Of the 280 girls who went through rush, 43 did not pledge.
"Twenty-nine of these girls dropped out by refusing invitations." Dean Taylor said.
A common complaint about the program of spring rush is that it is conducted over too long a duration
conducted over too long a duration Dean Taylor said:
"This period was too long. It was only a transition emergency measure. We had to go around activities that were already scheduled.
"Rush will be over by the end of the first week of the second semester next year."
'Fowl'on Sale Tomorrow
The new campus humor magazine "The Fowl," will go on sale tomorrow morning.
Richard Pollard, Topeka junior and business manager, said 1,700 copies of the 28-page magazine have been published.
The magazine was originally scheduled to be sold today, but the magazines arrived too late for distribution.
Sales distribution points for the magazine will be in the Hawk's Nest of the Kansas Union and at points along Jayhawk Boulevard.
Most High Schools Seen as 'No Good'
Everett Hughes, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, declared yesterday in a Daily Kansas interview that the majority of high schools in the United States are "no good."
Prof. Hughes, who has done extensive educational research, is giving a series of lectures on the campus this week.
"Too often though, it is considered as a public relations move. The important thing in the exchange student program is to learn, not to improve relations."
"Most of our high schools just don't seem to be teaching our students anything," he said. "A student who takes a course in a foreign language and is not able to read that language at the end of the course has not been properly educated."
"The United States is far behind the other countries of the world in this phase of education. However, this has to be balanced against the fact that we also have a much greater number of students going to school than the other countries."
"I think the main question in the problem is why the schools don't want to be better," he said.
Prof. Hughes said that he doesn't place the blame of the failure to learn or to teach on either the student or the schools.
"However, the majority of students in Russia stay in school for less than 10 years," he said.
When asked how the American schools compared with those in Russia, Prof. Hughes said that it is extremely difficult to find out much about the Russian schools.
Prof. Hughes said that he thought the system of exchanging students between countries was an extremely good one.
During the past three years, Prof. Hughes has attended three UNESCO conferences of social scientists who did research on possibilities of world-wide cooperation.
Everett Hughes
Vox Presents ASC Choices
By Doug Parker
The political tom-toms began beating today as Vox Populi political party announced its slate of candidates for the April All Student Council elections.
A total of 29 candidates was named by the party.
Tom Gee, Leavenworth senior and president of the party, said candidates for student body president and vice president will be named later.
Vox Populi rose on the campus last year to a major political power, sweeping 17 ASC seats from the incumbent Allied-Greek Independent party, plus three non-voting seats.
It is expected that the AGI party will come forth with candidates in the next few days as final preparations are made to groom the state.
Gee said his party will meet Thursday to discuss the platform and probably present it to the students right before vacation or shortly afterward.
"We haven't reached any deci-
Council Spends Hour on Phone
The All Student Council spent the greater part of the evening on the telephone last night.
Sixteen of the Council's 29 members were absent from the meeting so members present spent an hour and a half telephoning absentees in an attempt to produce a quorum of 15.
The members never succeeded in getting the quorum. Patrick Little, Wichita senior and chairman, called a meeting for 6:30 tonight.
For the members present, Irv Stolberg, campus international administrator of the United States National Student Assn., outlined the program of the NSA.
He said the KU campus could possibly apply the NSA principles of trying to promote better student government and better international student relations.
At the meeting tonight the Council will hear a reading of the proposed election bill designed to do away with ballot stuffing and speed up vote counting.
Sharp Student Has Some Dull Moments
One sleepy student groggily started off to class early this morning.
started off to class early this morning.
fell down feel? where he had
Did he look sharp? Yes, he had shaved and showered.
Did he feel sharp? Yes, he had 10 hours of sleep.
Did he act sharp? Hardly. When he hit the front door on the way to class what he thought were books under his arm was his shaving kit.
Pearson Citizens Calm-
Fire Spurts Anew
The second small fire in two weeks in a Joseph R. Pearson dormitory waste paper chute was snuffed out quickly yesterday by the automatic sprinkler system.
Cause of the fire was not immediately ascertained, but it is believed the fire was started from cigaret stubs thrown in the chute by dumping ashtravs.
"I think we're going to have to say something to the dormitory council about it," said James G. Middleton.
"A waste paper chute is not a good place to empty ash trays."
On March 3, waste paper in the same north stairwell caught fire after janitors had left the building for the day.
Yesterday's fire occurred about 4:30 in the afternoon when several students were lounging around awaiting meal time.
"When the fire alarm went off, out of 10 or 12 people in the lounge, only one person got up," said Michael Dunlop, Kirkwood, Mo.. freshman.
"And he just picked up another section of the newspaper," Dunlop added.
sions on the platform yet." Gee said.
"We're still open for discussion and batting ideas around to form the issues to stand on."
As yet there are no indications of fireworks in the campaign of either party as the days snowball into election day in mid-April.
Last year, John Downing, Kansas City, Mo. senior and student body
Vox Candidates
Engineering—Ted Hall, Garden City junior.
College—Frank Naylor, Kansas City, Kan., junior; Sara Carnahan, Toneka junior.
Business-Larry Dicker, West-
phalia junior.
Fine Arts—Dorothy Trickett,
Topeka sophomore.
Pharmacy-Bob Lott, Living-
ston, Mont., junior.
Education — Marjorie William-
Hutchinson junior.
Journalism—M a r t h a Crosier,
Lawrence senior.
Law—Mike Stout, Bazaar first-year law.
Graduate — Ken Wainwright,
Syvacuse senior.
Unmarried-Unorganized—Sarah Ann Shaffer, Russell junior; Terry Davis, Frontenac senior; Hal Archer, Olathe junior; Louis Lawrence, Great Bend sophomore.
Men's Dormitories—Tom Laws,
Burlington junior; Gary Dilley,
Emporia freshman; Ed McMullan,
Long Beach, N. Y., sonhomore.
Women's Dormitories—Betty Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., junior; Penny Purnell, Topeka freshman. **Dried**—Brien Schmalzied, Blake
Co-Op and Professional fraternity—Al Cohn, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
Fraternity Living District—Wendell Koerner, Jefferson City, Mo.; Jim Henderson, Wichita junior; Rudy Vondracek, Timkin junior; Bill Barr, Dodge City sophomore; Ron Dalby, Joplin, Mo., sophomore.
Sorority Living District—Mary Sue Childers, Merriman sophomore; Linda Rundle, Bonner Springs junior; Sharon Hide, Prairie Village sophomore.
president, was elected on a write-in vote on election day.
The Independent vote turned out in force that day as for the first
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Upper Courses May Be Offered
The faculty of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences last night adopted an amendment to the proposals changing the curriculum of the College which would strengthen the basic courses of science, mathematics and languages.
The amendment would allow a student to use upperclass introductory courses that some departments offer. to fill distribution requirements.
Francis Heller, associate dean of the College. said:
"We spent about two hours and a half in very animated and fruitful discussion. A number of amendments were offered from the floor to the proposals but only one passed. "Most of the proposed amendments related to the proposed minor and the form of the distribution requirement."
Dean Heller said the discussions were not completed last night.
The faculty, as yet, has not discussed all facets of the program. The discussions will be completed at a meeting March 31.
Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. Warmer east and north tonight. Turning cooler northwest tomorrow. Low tonight 35 to 45. High tomorrow 60 to 70.